Packing case



May! 29; 1923.

R. WOOD ET AL PACKING CASE Fi led Sept. 2 1922 M/l/EA/rb/zs KOBERT W00 0 RA/EL ms GA RE ETT ATTORNEYS Patented May 29, 1.9235.

niairsn srara please earner ROBERT WOOD AND CORNELIUS enannrr, or VANCOUVER, rarrrsn COLUMBIA,

' CANADA.

PACKING CASE.

Application filed September 28, 1922. Serial No. 591,185.

I all whom. it may con cern Be it known that we, ROBERT lVooD and CORNELIUS GARRETT, residents of the cit-y of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing Cases, of which the following is a specification Our invention relates toimprovements in packing boxes having for its objects the-pro- 1o vision of suitable means for packing goods for shipment and for displaying the goods so contained after delivery to the retail trade, and it consists essentially of a box having a slidable cover and a removable front panel, which latter may be replaced with a sheet of glass when desired, as will be more particularly shown in the following specification in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of our box partially broken away and in section.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view show ing a modified form of a front panel top rail, and its connection with styles of the box.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front view of the modified form of front panel top rail and front of sliding lid. I V

F ig. 4 is an enlarged perspective detail of the dowel by which connection is made between the top panel front rail and the styles of the box.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

The numeral 1 indicates the floor of our packing box, 2, 3, 4 and 5 being corner styles which are rectangular in cross section and are erected at each angle of the floor 1. 6 is a plurality of bottom rails which rest upon and are secured to the floor and which connect at their opposite ends with the lower extremities of the corner styles 2, 3, 4t and 5. 7 indicates top rails which extend between the upper extremities of the styles 3 and 5, 4.5 5 and 4:, and 4 and 2, to which they are secured. 8 is a plurality of panel grooves on the inner edges of the styles and rails in which are positioned a plurality of panels 9.

10 is a top rail extending between the up per extremities of the styles 2 and 3 and is so positioned that its outer face 11 is in the same plane as the inner side of the grooves 8 of the styles 2 and 3.

12 are strips surmounting the top rails 7 and are rebated to form agroove 13. 14 is a removable front panel the edges of which rest within the grooves 8 of the styles 2 and 3 and the bottom rail 6 and which extends vertically across the outer face 11 of the top rail 10. i

In use as a container for goods during shipment the panel 14 is of wood or other suitable material but when it is desired to display the goods in the box, the panel is 5 withdrawn and a panel of glass substituted therefor.

15 is a cover slidable within the groove 13, having upon its outer edge an angle strip 16 which provides a suitable thickness of material for nailing the cover to the rail 10 when packing for shipment.

In the modified construction of our box as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the numeral 17 indicates a. removable top rail grooved on its under edge to receive the topedge of the removable panel, the rail 17 being preferably connected to the styles by a dowel 18, see Fig. l, comprising a vertical web 19 terminating at each end in a scroll 20, half of which dowel would be driven into the end of rail 17 the other half being set into a cavity formed in the upper extremity of the style and from which it could be readily lifted. 21 is a strip surrounding the box, rebated to form grooves into which a removable cover 22 may be slid. The cover 22 is nailed vertically downwards into the top fail 17 to hold it in fixed position.

aving described the several parts of our invention we will now briefly explain the method of securing the box in closed position and the manner in which it is converted from a packing ease to a display case.

In a box made according to the construction shown in Fig. 1, the cover 15 would be nailed or screwed through the rebated strip 16 horizontally to the top rail 10, thus holding both the cover 15 and the front panel 14 against sliding movement lengthwise of their respective grooves.

To use the box for display purposes, the above mentioned fastenings are removed, the cover 15 totallywithdrawn from the box and the wood panel 10 withdrawn, substituting therefore a glass panel through which the goods in the box may be held in constant view.

In a box made according to the constructi n shown in Fi s. 2 and the cover is nailed vertically downwards into the removable top rail 17, thus holding all parts of the box against movement.

To use the box for display purposes, the fastenings are first withdrawn, the cover 22 withdrawn from its retaining grooves and the top rail lifted clear of the styles 2 and 3, when the glass panel is substituted for the wooden one in the aforesaid manner, and the top rail put back into its normal position.

7 It will thus be seen that we have invented a box which will serve a variety of purposes and which can be cheaply and strongly constructed. hat we claim as our invention is:

1. A packing box comprising a bottom wall, corner posts extending upwardly therefrom, the inner angularly related sides of they osts being provided with vertically ex-- tenc 111g grooves, front, side, and rear panels positioned between said posts with the vertical edges of the panels engaged in said grooves. strips connecting the upper ends of the posts at the sides and rear of the box, additional strips superimposed on said first mentioned strips and coacting therewith to form a horizontal guide way, a top panel movable in said guide way and means'for securing the adjacent edges of the top and front panels together. i a

2.1%. packing box comprising a bottom' wall, corner posts extending upwardly therefrom,'the inner angularly related sides of the said posts being provided with vertically extending grooves, front, side and rear panels positioned between said posts with the vertical edges of the panels engaged in said grooves, strips connectingthe upper end of the posts at the sides and rear of the box, the lower surface of said strips, being grooved to accommodate the upper edges of the side and rear panels, additional strips superimposed on said first mentioned strips and coacting therewith to form a horizontal guide way, and a top panel movable in said guide way, the arrangement being such that the front panel is removable subsequent to the removal of the top panel.

3. A packing box comprising a bottom wall, corner posts extending upwardly therefrom, the inner angularly related sides of said posts being provided with vertically extending grooves, front, side and rear panels positioned between said posts with the ver- I able in said guide way, .a nailingstrip exv tending across the box in contact with the upper rear portion of the front panel and a second nailing strip carried by the outer edge of the top panel adapted to be secured to the first mentioned nailing strip through the said upper portion of the front panel I whereby the two panels are held against removal by one fastening means.

Dated at Vancouver, B. 6., this 12th day of September, 1922.

ROBERT wooD. CORNELIUS GARRETT. I

WVitnesses i H. B, MARRIAN, ERNEST E. CARVER. 

